Red Battalions

The Red Battalions were urban workers who were recruited by the Constitutionalist forces of the Mexican Revolution to fight against the Zapatistas and Pancho Villa's army. The Mexican Revolution was a civil war that saw various alliances between different forces who fought various political reasons. The Red Battalions belonged largely to the Casa del Obrero Mundial ("house of the world worker"), an anarcho-syndicalist workers' organization. The battalions were deployed by Carranza in exchange for various rights for workers, to defeat the "peasant counterrevolutionaries" of Zapata and Villa. They were called the Red Battalions because of their left-wing membership.

The battalions were ultimately disbanded after Carranza no longer required their forces to subdue the insurgents of the north and the peasant guerrillas of the south. On 13 January 1916, amidst strikes incited by the Casa Obrera Mundial, Carranza ordered the last of the Red Battalions to dissolve. Thereafter all labor unrest was suppressed, often violently, and the Casa went into decline.^[1]

References

^ John M. Hart. "Revolutionary Syndicalism in Mexico". Retrieved January 10, 2014.

Carr, Barry. "The Casa del Obrero Mundial. Constitutionalism and the pact of February 1915" in El Trabajo y los trabajadores, 603-32.
Cockcroft, James (1992). Mexico: Class Formation, Capital Accumulation, & the State. Monthly Review Press.
Hart, John Mason. Anarchism and the Mexican Working Class, 1880-1931. Austin: University of Texas Press 1978.
Hart, John Mason. "The urban working class and the Mexican Revolution. The case of the Casa del Obrero Mundial", Hispanic American Historical Review vol. 58, no. 1, 1-20.
Meyer, Jean A. "Les Ouvrier dans la révolution mexicane. Les Bataillons rouges". Annales: Économies, Sociétes, Civilisations. vol. 25, no. 1 1970, 30-55.

This Mexican history article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] John M. Hart. "Revolutionary Syndicalism in Mexico". Retrieved January 10, 2014.

[1]

v t e Mexican Revolution
Background	History of Mexico Economic History of Mexico Encomiendas Haciendas Casta social system Constitution of 1857 Reform War La Reforma French Intervention in Mexico Porfiriato Científicos
Important people	Porfirio Díaz Francisco I. Madero José María Pino Suárez Victoriano Huerta Francisco "Pancho" Villa Venustiano Carranza Emiliano Zapata Álvaro Obregón Ricardo Flores Magón Pascual Orozco Carmen Serdán Aquiles Serdán Plutarco Elías Calles Lázaro Cárdenas José Yves Limantour Ramón Corral Francisco León de la Barra Félix Díaz Velasco Bernardo Reyes Eufemio Zapata Manuel Palafox Genovevo de la O
Plans	Plan of San Luis Potosí Plan of Ayala Plan of Guadalupe Plan of Agua Prieta Plan of San Diego
Political developments	Treaty of Ciudad Juárez Decena trágica Morelos Commune Convention of Aguascalientes Querétaro Constitutional Convention Pancho Villa Expedition Maximato United States involvement formations
Legacy	Emigration from Mexico Mexican Constitution of 1917 Cristero War Land Reforms Mexican miracle 1968 student protests Popular culture Historical Museum Monument to the Revolution Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Zapatista Army of National Liberation Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution
Other	Factions Liberation Army of the South Constitutionalists División del Norte Federales Felicistas Magonistas Soldaderas Sonora in the Mexican Revolution

Red Battalions

See also

References

Further reading